On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:18:29AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> So to summary:
> Policy 11.2 recommends:
> strip --strip-unneeded
> dh_strip does:
> strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
> install -s does currently:
> strip --strip-unneeded
> lintian checks for:
> strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
>
> is that correct ?
Yes.
> Did 'install -s' used to do
> 'strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note' ?
Yes, lintian 0.4.4 (1998) mentions it:
* (checks/binaries) At Yann Dirson's suggestion, added a tag for
stripped binaries that still have the .comment and .note sections.
This tag is info-level, thus not normally displayed.
dh_strip and install -s have been patched to strip these sections,
but most of the distribution has not been recompiled with the patched
versions.
* (checks/binaries.desc) Described the new tag.
(closes #22495).
In lintian 1.20.1 (2001) the tag was promoted from I to W, after the patch
for install was removed in coreutils 5.93-1 the tag was demoted back to I
in lintian 1.23.14 (2005).
> Do we know why it was changed ?
coreutils 5.93-1 changelog says:
* Remove some ancient debian-specific patches
- install no longer calls strip with special options
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